Concerning the proposed annexation of acreage southeast of Beacon Lite Road and Palmer Divide Road:
“Flagpole” annexation is a device used by speculators to purchase undeveloped rural land at the value of raw land and then get a municipality to “annex” the property to provide services to said property; not limited to a police, fire, road maintenance including the flagpole, and; most importantly utilities; greatly enhancing the original value of the property.
The flagpole consists in most cases of including a road to and past the property. Then the object is to get a municipality to annex the property and the roads, thereby satisfying the requirement that one-sixth of the property is next to the Town of Palmer lake. The essence of the planning requirement is that annexation should be an organic part of natural expansion. This is, of course, not the case requiring the gimmick of flagpole annexing half of the Palmer Divide Road that is in El Paso County and Beacon Lite Road. The method is obviously to skirt annexation requirements described in Item 2 of the Annexation Ordinance that endeavor to provide orderly growth; questionable at best but certainly dishonest. I also don’t see compliance with Item 8 stating that all of a street must be annexed.
Anyone paying attention knows that Colorado Springs and Monument have each rejected flagpoles!
A Buc-ee’s representative, Mr. Beard, states that impact to Palmer Lake would be non-existent, offering up neighbors next to the behemoth as sacrificial lambs.
Donn Hume
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